Girl, 7, put on harsh diet by mum
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Girl, 7, put on harsh diet by mum
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Betty photographed last month in New York
Credit: FLORA HANITIJO
Eighteen months ago, Betty Kubovy-Weiss was walking down the street in Manhattan when a man came up and tried to talk to her. This being ‘the city’, she just ignored him. ‘You fat bitch,’ he spat.
This would be upsetting for anyone, but for Betty, now 17, it’s nothing new. ‘I’ve had people commenting on my weight for half my life,’ she says today. ‘I’ve often been bullied.’
In April 2012, aged just eight, Betty found herself at the centre of an international storm, after an American Vogue article written by her mother Dara-Lynn Weiss, went viral. A year earlier, Betty’s doctor had pronounced her to be ‘obese’ – pointing out she was 4ft 4in, 6st 9lbs, and ‘needed to get some help with her weight’. She even had raised blood pressure. The article detailed what happened over the next year, after Dara-Lynn made what she described in the article as a ‘practical but unconventional and co